This Plan describes the M&E framework, indicators, processes, sources of data, methods and tools that the sector will use to collect, compile, report and use data, and provide feedback as part of the national Health Sector M&E mechanisms. It is intended to document what needs to be monitored, with whom, by whom, when, how, and how the M&E data will be used. It also outlines how and when the different types of studies and evaluations will be conducted by the sector. It translates these processes into annualized and costed activities and assigns responsibilities for implementation.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) Strategic Plan builds on the Human Capital Development Component of the National Development Plan III and lays a foundation for movement towards Universal Health Coverage. This plan provides strategic directions to the MoH Headquarters over the five-year period and is underpinned by a performance agreement that will enable the Ministry to assess and report on the results of the MoH in each specific strategic area of focus on regular basis.
Agromet Bulletin is prepared and disseminated by the National Meteorological Agency (NMA), to provide agricultural sectors and related disciplines with the current weather situation in relation to agricultural practices. The information contained in the bulletin, are believed to assist planners, decision makers and the farmers at large, in minimizing risks, increase efficiency and maximize yield.
The SARA/DQR serves as a monitoring and evaluation tool of the national health strategy and provides key information on progress of health system strengthening over time. It facilitates identification of gaps and weaknesses responsible for suboptimal service provision and intervention coverage that need to be addressed and provides a baseline for planning and monitoring scale-up of interventions for service delivery improvement
The year 2020, has been marked with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic which has ravaged the world and set a new normal in the lives of people, the way we interact and the way we deliver and access services. The pandemic has taken a staggering toll on people, communities and economies everywhere. But not everyone is affected equally. The pandemic is hitting marginalized communities harder, particularly women and girls, deepening inequalities and threatening efforts to leave no one behind.
Every day, tens of thousands of girls have their health, rights and futures stolen. Some are subjected to female genital mutilation. Some are forced into “marriages” as children, and still others are neglected or starved, simply because they are female.
The development of the 2019 State of Uganda Population Report was a result of a series of stakeholder consultative and editorial committee meetings under the leadership of National Population Council (NPC). National Population Council recognizes the important inputs of all the stakeholders and members of the editorial committee for committing their valuable time and contributing ideas that lead to the production of the 19th edition of the State of Uganda Population Report.
The State of Uganda Population Report development process is a result of many multi sectoral consultative meetings under the leadership of Population Secretariat. We therefore recognize the fundamental inputs of all stakeholders who participated in the production of this report. This year's report comes at a time when the National Development Plan 2009/10 2014/15 was launched and the report needed to capture and reflect on the key development strategies contained therein.
Uganda has been compiling the “State of Uganda Population Report” on an annual basis since 2000 through a joint effort by Population Secretariat, as the institution responsible for coordinating population policies and programmes; and United
Uganda’s young population can be a valuable asset in driving the demographic dividend agenda. This will depend on the country’s ability to implement a development program that recognises the importance of population dynamics in development.3 In this regard, there is a need to deliberately change Uganda’s age structure to transform the population to have more workers than dependent by reducing birth rates and investing in the health, skill, education and employment of the youthful population. The shift in the age structure could be a driving force to achieve the socio-economic transformation envisaged in the second National Development Plan, the Vision 2040 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
These two events—the launch of the first United Nations agency dedicated to addressing population growth and the reproductive health needs of the world’s people, and the declaration of a global commitment to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights—have fundamentally shaped the lives of women and families, and the societies in which they live, in ways measurable and immeasurable, profound and trivial, permanent and fleeting.
In today’s world, gaps in wealth have grown shockingly wide. Billions of people linger at the bottom, denied their human rights and prospects for a better life. At the top, resources and privileges accrue at explosive rates, pushing the world ever further from the vision of equality embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
